Stories
- In pictures
From cacao to chocolate
Discover how chocolate morphed from a prized, spiritually significant commodity to a quasi-medicine, and finally to the sweet treat we eat almost daily.
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The metamorphosis of masturbation
Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?
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Intertwined with air
Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.
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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
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Bean's rich & creamy custard powder : not made with eggs / G. Bean & Son.
G. Bean & Son.Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Bean, Martin
Date: 15/09/2009Reference: TP1/A/1707Part of: One and Other Project- Archives and manuscripts
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Bean, Lylian
Date: 1918-1925Reference: RET/6/20/1/2/27Part of: The Retreat Archive- Pictures
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Bean plant (Phaseolus sp.): flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after F.A. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17599i- Pictures
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Bean plant (Phaseolus species): flowering and fruiting stem with three beans. Coloured pen and ink drawing by F. V. Ghini, 17--.
Ghini, Francesco Velluti.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 21845i